As the prospect of a new cold war between Russia and the West intensifies in Ukraine, conceivably “the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II” (NYT), it is important to recall what the world looked like in the first Cold War. What do you remember? Test your knowledge and memory of the first Cold War, particularly how it started in the 1940s. Click on the links for the answers or to this page for the overview.
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